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Since the pipeline issue is of vital national interest, the entire subject should be argued in the widest possible public debate. At least one alternative merits consideration: a longer pipeline from Alaska to the Midwest through Canada's Mackenzie Valley. Such a project could not only tap Canada's vast reserves but also move both countries toward a continent-wide policy for the development and use of energy...
They called themselves the "Fourth Combined P.O.W. Wing." Each camp had its own American commandant, as it were. The prisoners adopted Air Force organizational tables-wings, squadrons, operations. A tap code and a hand code were the most effective methods of communicating, but everything helped-the modulations of a cough, the syncopated swipe of a broom...
...torturing of prisoners in Kasler's building began in earnest (he had been moved from the Hanoi Hilton to another prison in the capital, "the Zoo-that's what it reminded us of"). The Vietnamese had discovered that the Americans were communicating with each other by tapping on the concrete walls, and wanted to know who was guilty. Kasler certainly was. With the prisoners' special tap code, he said, he "could send a message through five rooms and get an answer back in ten minutes. We really got pretty fast at it." The price for being caught...
Engineer Roman Kuzovatkin turns a tap on a loop of steel pipe that juts from a snowbank near Samotlor. A spurt of fine black oil sprays the surrounding drifts. Moments later, a helicopter whips up a snowstorm as it takes off to ferry equipment to construction crews that are dynamiting the frozen earth to lay new pipelines. Farther to the north in the Nadym gas fields hard by the Arctic Circle, the long nights are thunderously lit by giant flares of blazing gas. It will soon light Western Europe and may one day heat New York. Two thousand miles...
...effect waiting in the wings, Burns then elaborated a plan for a split prime rate that he believes could take the political heat off the banks. He promised to have specific guidelines ready within a month. Under his program, the cost of loans to giant corporations, which can tap the bond or stock markets for money when that seems better than borrowing from banks, will be keyed to the movement of other interest rates. Right now, that would be sharply up. The prime rate for smaller businesses-say those seeking bank loans of less than $500,000-would...